carte
/kɑː(ɹ)t/
carte noun: a bill of fare; a menu. Also the alternative form of quarte.
Noun
carte (plural cartes)
- A bill of fare; a menu.
- A visiting card.
- "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown.1869, Emma Jane Worboise, “Confidences”, in The Fortunes of Cyril Denham, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 258
- A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
- Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle
- A playing card.
- We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
- He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 242
Proper noun capitalized: Carte
Carte (plural Cartes)
- A surname.
Also used as
carte is also the alternative form of quarte.
carte meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu
carte in Hindi
- कार्टे
carte in Marathi
- कार्टे
carte in Urdu
- کارٹے
carte in Telugu
- కార్టే, కార్టె
More languagesFewer languages
- carte in Malayalam
- കാർട്ടെ
- carte in Kannada
- ಕಾರ್ಟೇ, ಕಾರ್ಟೆ
- carte in Punjabi
- ਕਾਰਟੇ
- carte in Gujarati
- કાર્ટે
- carte in Odia
- କାର୍ଟେ
- carte in Nepali
- कार्टे
Examples of carte in a sentence
- Am citit o carte tare proastă. (I read a very bad book).
- The restaurant had a huge à la carte menu and four specials that day.
- Trump and MAGA world interpret this, and not without cause, as giving them carte blanche.
Forms of carte
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cartes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cartes |
Origin of carte
Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart.
Phrases with carte
Words that rhyme with carte
32 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about carte
- What does carte mean?
- Carte means a bill of fare; a menu.
- What is carte in Hindi?
- Carte in Hindi is कार्टे. See Carte meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is carte?
- Carte can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce carte?
- Carte is pronounced /kɑː(ɹ)t/.
- What is the plural of carte?
- The plural of carte is cartes.
Words near carte in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: carte (page history and authors); Carte (page history and authors); carte (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); carte (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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